Birthday Cupcakes with Sprinkles

Here is a simple but fun and yummy way of celebrating a birthday!! All you need to add is a birthday candle...



Preheat oven to 180C
CUPCAKES

110g butter
225g caster sugar
2 large eggs
150g self raising flour
125g plain flour
120 ml skimmed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

ICING

110g butter
2tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
grated zest of lemon
500g icing sugar

Cream together butter and sugar, then add the eggs. In a separate bowl combine the two flours shifted, and then in another bowl add the milk and vanilla together.
Slowly add the milk and flour mixture to the creamed butter. And now the fun bit of filling up the cupcake cases, cook for 15 minutes, or longer if you use a larger sized case.

The icing is quite simple, mix the butter and lemon ingredients and then slowly shift in the icing sugar, ta da!

Bad Bad Banana Tarte Tatin

Yum yum yum, this was delicious but very naughty!
It usually serves 6 but was almost consumed entirely by my friend and I along with a bowel of ice cream!
It is so easy to make and takes 25 mins to cook!

You shall need:
375g ready rolled puff pastry
4 ripe bananas (where the badness starts)
and 150g of toffee sauce (waitrose sell it in 300g bags, the second stage of badness when I didn't stop pouring the entire bag of sauce out)

preheat the oven to 200C
and lightly grease a 24cm round tin

peel and cut bananas and lay them on base of tin, pour the sauce over and then place a circle of the pastry over the top, tucking the bananas in. Place in the oven and wait 25 minutes for this delicious treat!

Focaccia and fresh Rosemary

Recipe still to come........

Yum Yum more Vegan delights!

VEGAN CHOCOLATE CHOC CHIP COOKIES



These are very delicious, and for some reason are a lot more chewy than your average cookie!
With all things vegan, you have a choice of greasing with soya butter or coconut oil. So grease the trays and set the oven to 180C, this recipe should make 12 cookies.

25g plain flour, plus 1 tsp baking powder
50g soft brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
4 tsp of coco powder
pinch of salt
100ml soya milk
75ml rapeseed oil
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp finely grated orange rind
50g dairy-free chocolate (this can also be that delicious vegan chocolate and mint choc to add extra flavour)

mix everything together and using hands roll out 12 balls, smoothing the tops with a wet knife and cook for 10mins!

VEGANALICIOUS!

My brother has been a vegan for bout a year and so I have come to the conclusion I have to look into the scary world of vegan cooking!
So here is the first of a delicious but simple recipe for a sunday afternoon!

VEGAN SCONES



Preheat the oven to 220C
Shift:
8oz self raising flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Mix:
1 1/2 oz SOYA butter (found in any supermarket)
2 tablespoons of caster sugar
Then pour in 150ml of SOYA milk to make a dough.

Knead it all for 5 minutes, roll out to a thickness of one inch and using a fluted 3inch cutter.
Glaze and pop in the oven for 15minutes!

Nigella's Chocolate Guinness Cake / Fabulous wedding cake!!

Here I took this fantastic recipe from Rosanagh and dressed it up for a friends wedding!!
This is what the cake looked like before it went on its adventurous trip, journey on a few trains and then getting lost in redruth...
Melted but delicious by the end.

Pretty Plum Muffins

These beautiful plum muffins are easy and delicious. Perfect for birthday muffins or fruit lovers!

Heat the oven to 200C
Mix:
225g plain flour
2 Teaspoons baking powder
75g golden caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt

Then mix:
1 medium egg
200ml milk
30g unsalted butter (melted)

Mix everything together and then add:
4 red or purple plums (180g) stoned and diced
zest of 1 lemon

The icing can be added later, to add the final touch!